Bhupinder Singh Hooda starts making election promises

CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday promised Rs 3,000 per month as old age pension and loan waivers for small farmers and due monetary rewards for sportspersons of the state.
Hooda announced this while addressing public meetings at various places in Panipat district on the concluding day of the second phase of the ‘Jan Kranti Yatra’ started by him from Samalkha on June 3.

“We have always fulfilled what we promised before and after the elections. Hence, we will waive the loans of small farmers and below poverty line (BPL) families in the first go after Congress comes back to power in Haryana. Similarly, we shall issue pink cards again,” he said. The former CM said players were the only promising community that was left in the state. “This government is bent upon spoiling the careers of sportspersons as well. We had started the policy of giving cash awards to sportspersons.

“We assure you to repay money arrears of the award money with interest,” said Hooda while urging the state’s sportspersons to play with more enthusiasm.

Making a scathing attack on CM Manohar Lal Khattar and his cabinet ministers, the senior Congress leader asked them to list out any Dalit-friendly, poor-friendly and farmer-friendly decision. Hooda’s son and Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda, former speaker of Haryana Kuldeep Sharma and ex-MLA Dharam Singh Chhokar also addressed the gatherings.